Featured Roundup - June 12th to June 18th
DOT Game Listings
Written by Dodow
Mythical Games’ launch of FIFA Rivals has gotten folks making supers, and for some, addicted to their screens. That said, if the beautiful game isn’t your thing, there’s still plenty of other gaming within the Polkadot ecosystem to get into. Here’s a list (non-exhaustive) to get you started:
Packing the field and catering to fans with NFL Rivals already gave us a taste of what Mythical Games could do. The impressive numbers are backed by the intensity of running plays, improving your roster, and the Chiefs.
Or why not get yourself behind a new set of wheels and go on the Nitro Nation World Tour? There are plenty of upgrades for car aficionados and tracks to race on.
If you prefer to explore and venture on missions, then the dark fantasy MMO Evrloot is worth considering. We went undercover on their S1 campaign and did some catchin’ up on S2. So far player retention has been solid, with around 10K participants.
For those more into traditional strategy games, how about ChessOnChain, who have an implementation powered by Polkadot rollup Unique Network? The chads over at Polkadot Africa recently hosted a competition and can walk you through how it works.
Still can’t decide how to get involved? You could always visit the Moonbeam Gaming Hub, which conveniently provides more information. From there, you can join in on N3mus’ weekly tournaments with a prize pool of $2.5K. The weekly lineup does vary, with ecosystem games titles that include: Pink Drop (casual), Zombies’ Bonez (cards), The Great Escape (platform), Olderfall (PVP), Data 2073 (cards), and even a familiar face in recent joiner Flappy Wud (arcade).
To the more serious gamers out there, do you have what it takes to become a Heroic Champion? Regardless of your gaming appetite, there could be some useful news for you in our weekly roundup. News found by the community. Curated by the community. Backed by OpenGov.
DOT Ecosystem News & Events
Written by yay.oi
Bringing us one step closer to the launch of the Polkadot Hub, the migration of staking and governance has successfully been completed on the Westend Asset Hub.
This week RFC #0146, proposed by Jonas Gehrlein, passed a Fellowship vote. It will add to DOT deflationary pressure by burning 80% of Polkadot transaction fees on the Relay and System chains.
DOT payments are now possible with more than 20M merchants in Southeast Asia, thanks to a new integration with AEON.
US-based centralized exchange Uphold has expanded its Polkadot ecosystem offerings by listing Peaq’s native token (PEAQ).
Acurast compute providers can now opt-in to battery status and percentage monitoring, visible at any time on the Acurast Hub.
On behalf of Wagmedia, Niftesty and Ikhaled have been awarded an Ink!ubator 2.0 grant. The funding will support the development of a treasury management solution for vested, recurring, and instant payouts, utilizing Ink! smart contracts and a React frontend.
While continuing to build on Polkadot, Robonomics has announced a shift in its marketing and development direction. Due to a lack of significant traction within the crypto community, it will now focus on marketing its devices to the retail market via IndieGogo and Kickstarter, with future plans for global distribution on Amazon.
Astar has now deployed Async-backing, offering faster block confirmations and higher transaction throughput by reducing block times to six seconds.
The Astar dApp Staking program is now accepting applications from the broader ecosystem. To be eligible, candidates should demonstrate their value to Astar through meaningful ASTR token integration and promotional efforts.
Integritee’s Incognitee Messenger app now features a privacy-enhanced ChatGPT, offering shielded AI-chatbot interactions payable in DOT, USDT, USDC, or ETH.
Umanitek is collaborating with The International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children to deploy its Guardian AI agent in the fight against online child exploitation.
June is looking promising for Origin Trail’s TRAC and NEURO tokens. A proposal is under consideration by Hydration to list Snowbridge TRAC in the Omnipool. NEURO, in the meantime, will be getting a boost to liquidity and availability in Polkadot ecosystem DEXs.
Peaq has joined forces with Kaito to launch the Get Real Yapper Leaderboard. The top yappers will be incentivized with 0.55% of the PEAQ genesis supply over 11 months.
Squid Router has partnered with Peaq to offer cross-chain swaps of USDT and PEAQ across more than 80 chains.
Just one week after the launch of Parasail’s stPEAQ liquid staking token, over 500 users have already delegated more than 800K PEAQ tokens.
MACHINEX, the Peaq ecosystem DEX to power the machine economy, is now live. Trading and liquidity provision are now available for PEAQ, USDT, USDC, SLC, and ANYONE.
Steer Protocol has partnered with MACHINEX to provide automated liquidity provision pools. On launch, WPEAQ/USDC.e, WPEAQ/SLC, and WPEAQ/USDT vaults are available, offering higher yields through auto rebalancing and fee compounding.
On Sunday, June 16th, after the execution of Hydration Referendum 96, the vDOT lending pool cap was raised from 666,666 to 1,333,333. As with previous cap raisings, it filled within hours.
BOOMACA, Acala’s first ACA liquid staking token, developed by Boomerang, is now live.
Mythical’s FIFA Rivals is now live, already achieving the #1 position in the Sports (Free) category on the Apple App Store and 100K+ downloads on the Google Play Store.
Mythical Games and OneFootball have announced a multi-year partnership for FIFA Rivals that will merge their communities. They aim to elevate the gameplay experience by integrating real-time authentic football content.
Mythical has launched the FIFA Rivals Creator Contest. To enter, tag FIFARivals in your content and use the hashtag #FIFARivalsContest. The winner will score their club’s 25/26 shirt, and the top three will share in a prize pool of in-game Gems.
It’s time to deploy the huddle. Mythical Games is seeking licencing for ten community-owned Pudgy Penguins characters for use in the Pudgy Party app and promos. Successful candidates will receive $100 in royalties. Applications close on July 12th.
Hello bidirectionality! Snowbridge transfers of MYTH from Mythos to Ethereum are now enabled.
Since commencing the burn of all gas fees 3 months ago, Mythos Chain has now incinerated a total of 4M MYTH.
This week’s Koda drop came from Pizza Punk. Propagation 2 is an animated generative art collection that combines rigid geometry with organic deformations.
Rich Valentino is back, and his latest drop, Cabin Loops, is now the background track at Gavun Wud’s WUD Universe.
Based on community feedback, Karam (Web3 Foundation) has proposed some possible changes to the Decentralized Voices (DV) program. These include the introduction of DV-Light delegates, a group of doxxed individuals receiving approximately 10% voting power to vote on topics that match their specializations. In addition, after enacting some stricter regulations, the number of DV-DAOs could be increased and their voting power reduced.
In Referendum 1614, the Polkadot Ambassador Fellowship is requesting 1.98M USDC to fund the Ascent Cycle, the next phase of its growth, from July 2025 to March 2026. This phase aims to onboard 70 new ambassadors, establish regional cores, and build specialist verticals in key areas.
Attention loopers. Hydration Referendum 96 proposes to increase the vDOT lending supply cap from 666,666 to 1,333,333. In addition, for DOT-correlated assets in E-mode, the LTV ratio would be increased from 80% to 90%, and the Liquidation Threshold from 90% to 92%.
Hydration Referendum 98, if passed, will request the Technical Committee to whitelist all referenda related to the GIGAHydration campaign. With Polkadot Treasury funds hitting the Hydration wallet on June 26th, this will help to expedite the launch of incentives on June 27th.
At Protocol Berg on June 12th, Bastian Köcher (Parity) presented an overview of CorePlay, described as an actor-like framework for blockchains built on top of JAM.
Farmsent hosted DePIN projects Azen, BitDoctor, DTel, and NetSepio on June 12th for a discussion on building in the Peaq ecosystem.
Mandala Chain hosted Pauline (PBA) on June 12th for a rundown of the upcoming Polkadot Blockchain Academy Campus cohort in Bali, Indonesia.
At the Blockspatï on June 13th, Shawn Tabrizi presented JAM as the World Computer.
Mythical Monday on June 16th was a FIFA Rivals special, featuring John Linden, who brought some post-launch insights and teased some upcoming game enhancements.